Villanelle: Hope Not Hope Against the Landing of the Craft Mh370

Villanelle: Hope not hope against the landing of the craft MH370 Hope not hope against the landing of the craft The sky is deeper than the oceans of the earth The last voice you heard does it come from the loft What goes up must come down be it just on raft The longer you wait the dimmer must grow faith Hope not hope against the landing of the craft Days stretch into nights till lights dim dark on raft He who knocks from the other side knows true mirth The last voice you heard does it come from the loft Man’s meanness to man cannot be Maker’s graft Two hundred thirty-nine ways show World the truth Hope not hope against the landing of the craft Million dashed hopes founder by scion in graft Too many the mourned lives roving lone the earth The last voice you heard does it come from the loft Sixty years of a cover-up now erupt In the face of those modelled by Master birth Hope not hope against the landing of the craft The last voice you heard does it come from the loft © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014